Cherry Glazerr – Nurse Ratched (Stream)

by Steven Spoerl

Over the past few days a fair few songs have found their way into the world. Among them were Low Culture’s characteristically blistering “Oh Jazelle”, a severely damaged noise-psych bruiser from Timmy’s Organism, a strong reminder- in the form of “Now I Understand“- that The Proper Ornaments’ Wooden Heads is worth year-end consideration, a pulverizing shard of wiry post-punk from newly-signed Captured Tracks act MOURN, a sprawling world-builder from the dream collaboration of The Bug and Earth, and the absolutely gorgeous piano-led “Bell’s View” from Grandaddy mastermind Jason Lytle. One of the tracks that stuck out most, though, was “Nurse Ratched”, a new highlight from basement poppers Cherry Glazerr.

With their new EP, Had Ten Dollaz, out today, Cherry Glazerr continue a career-launching 2014 with panache. Haxel Princesskicked things off for the band back in January and they’ve only managed to increase their momentum. Back in September, the band first flashed material from Had Ten Dollaz with the Yves Saint Laurent-commissioned title track and now they’ve provided all the supplementary material. While Haxel Promise was good, it suggested a greater promise from a band that was still developing; “Had Ten Dollaz” and “Nurse Ratched” both showed an unexpected acceleration on the attainment of that promise. “Nurse Ratched”, in particular, shows how well the band’s perfected a laid-back atmosphere that still manages to feel fiercely propulsive. Make no mistake, Cherry Glazerr is fully aware of the fact that they’re a band on the rise and they’ll continue to make waves strong enough to match their music’s deceptively powerful undercurrent.

Listen to “Nurse Ratched” below and order Had Ten Dollaz from Suicide Squeeze here.